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Charity The Trussell Trust has called for urgent action to improve the system of Universal Credit after new figures revealed a 20 per cent rise in the use of food banks in Scotland in the last year.

Claudia Cavalluzzo Claudia Cavalluzzo, the former head of Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Saltire Fellowship, has been appointed deputy director of company creation competition Converge Challenge.

Laura and Craig Davidson of Tag Digital The husband-and-wife team behind a thriving Scottish digital advertising firm have revealed plans for American expansion after being named as one of 20 businesses accepted on to the inaugural Scale Up Scotland programme run by The Hunter Foundation and Entrepr

A Fife solicitor who stole more than £269,000 from his aunt after taking control of her finances has been jailed.

The Queen has been exposed, along with a host of other celebrities and politicians, as having invested millions of pounds in offshore tax havens, after documents held by organisations including Bermuda-based law firm Appleby were stolen in what has been dubbed the Paradise Papers leak.

Brian Palmer Brian Palmer, tax policy expert, the Association of Accounting Technicians looks at what the Paradise Papers could mean for your business

Commercial disputes specialist Philip Sewell has joined Scottish law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn as a partner, bringing 25 years’ experience to the firm’s Commercial Disputes and Regulation Division.

Bruce Farquhar Scottish Enterprise is to host a free event in Edinburgh on Wednesday 8 November designed to encourage business owners to consider their succession options.

Today saw further disappointing and worrying news for the UK's car sector as the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT) reported a sharp 12.2 per cent year-on-year (y/y) drop in new registrations, with both consumers and fleet buyers cutting back markedly.

Dene Rowe A new artificial intelligence insurance lawyer that its creators say will handle avoidable litigation cases, providing insurers with transformative speed and ease of service; handing the power back to handlers and reducing cost in the process, has been launched.

L-R: John Montague, managing director of group operations at The Big Issue, Ben Macpherson, SNP MSP for Edinburgh Northern and Leith, Amanda Young, head of responsible investment and Craig MacDonald, global head of fixed income at Aberdeen Standard Investments mark the launch of Big Issue Invest Sco

Evelyn Simpson Investing Women, Scotland’s only all-female business angel group, has announced three appointments to its board of directors.

The accounting deficit of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes for the UK’s 350 largest listed companies decreased slightly from £68bn at the end of September to £67bn on 31 October 2017.

Storage Vault, providers of high quality self-storage, office and studios spaces, will extend its roll-out of new workspace centres across Scotland following agreement of a £5m funding package from HSBC, more than doubling its business and creating up to 15 new jobs in the next year.

Tech-focussed Edinburgh portfolio Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has posted another solid performance for the first half of 2017 after returning 15 per cent compared with 8 per cent for the average fund in the AIC Global sector over the same time period. The value of the portfolio after the firs